To Podolsk, Moscow Province.

To Maria Alexandrovna Ulyanova. Kedrovaya House 2/VII. 00.

Dear little mother! Unfortunately, I must inform you that our meeting is being postponed somewhat: I am obliged to make a brief trip to a comrade in Siberia,196 and therefore I will not be passing through Podolsk before the 20th or 21st of July (I think the 20th is more likely). And then it will only remain for me to gather my things, have my passport visaed — and depart further. If the things have not yet arrived, I most earnestly ask Mitya to take the most energetic measures by

* — into the bosom of nature, out of the city. Ed.